Coat-collar.



No. 759,371. v 4 PATENTED MAY 10, 1904. H. HOFFMAN. GOAT COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 18, 1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY HOFFMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF 'IO CHARLES A. MURPHY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COAT-COL LAR- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 759,371, dated May 10, 1904.

Application filed January 18, 1904.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY HOFFMAN, a citizen of the United States, and -a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coat-Collars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Heretofore collars for coats, and particularly for ulsters, have been so made that the only two positions in which they could be worn was fully turned up or turned down. When in the former position, the collar did not lie snug against the neck, but merely formed a sort of funnel from the shoulders to the face more or less open and with more or less exposure to the neck in front.

The object of my invention is to provide a collar which, like the turtle-neck of a sweater, can be turned down to a greater or less extent or turned up to any extent desired and which will in the former case conform to the shape of the neck or shoulders or in the latter hug the neck without exposing it in front or elsewhere. This I accomplish by the means hereinafter fully described, and as particularly pointed out in the claims.

. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view illustrating the shoulders and head of a man wearing a coat having my improved collar applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of said collar, drawn to a slightly larger scale. Fig.

3 is a plan of the upper portion of the front pattern of a coat and one-half of the neck or collar pattern of the same embodying my invention.

Collars for mens coats, and particularly for the style of garments known as ulsters, are made by cutting the cloth according to a neck-pattern, the forward portion of whose lower edge, which is sewed to the neck a of the front pattern A of the coat, is curved in the same direction as the neck edge a of said front pattern, as shown by dotted line 0 in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and in many instances conforms exactly to the curvature of said neck. When thus shaped and the strip of cloth out according to the neck-pattern is sewed to the neck of the front piece of the coat, the front of the collar when the coat is completed will Serial lie-189,603 (N0 model.)

be pulled down and when donned by the wearer the collar when turned down falls away from the neck, but when buttoned up or turned up to protect the neck leaves a V-shaped opening and stands out at an angle from the neckseam. To overcome these objections and to make the collar close in front, hug the neck, and conform to the natural curvature of the shoulders and neck of the wearer, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the neckpattern B has the portion of the edge I) thereof which is sewed to the curved portion of the neck edge a of the front pattern A curved slightly in the opposite direction to the curvature of the edge a. When the edge 6 of the collar-strip B is sewed to the edge a of the front'section of the coat and the latter is completed in the usual manner, the collar can, with its outer edge turned down, be pulled down to a greater or less extent when the front of the coat is open and will fall away from the neckof the wearer, according as desired, or can be rolled up like the neck of a turtle-necked sweater and made to hug the tion of the said strip being curved downward and in the reverse direction to the curvature of the edge of the neck portion of the front section of the coat to which it is sewed.

2. A coat comprising a front section having a shoulder edge substantially as shown, and having the edge for the neck curved downward from the said shoulder, and comprising a collar-strip, the lower edge of the front portion of which, before the same is sewed t0 the said neck, can touch but at the angle formed by the shoulder and neck of the front section and the opposite terminus of said curved edge of the neck portion. a

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day of January, 1904.

HARRY HOFFMAN.

Witnesses:

1 1K. LUNDY, FRANK D. THoMAsoN. 

